Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Prof Wong Tien Yin

7pm, Friday

2nd March 2012

Student Common Lounge,

Level 1, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

Please register at tembusu.nus.edu.sg

Prof Wong Tien Yin is Director of the Singapore Eye Research Institute and a Senior Consultant at the Singapore National Eye Centre and the National University Health System. He is also a Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology at the National University of Singapore where he mentors a generation of would-be clinician scientists embarking on a journey of scientific discovery.

A pioneer in the arena of clinician scientists with a keen interest in research, he has developed diagnostic platforms for retinal imaging to assess a patient’s cardiovascular and diabetes risk; findings of great significance to public health benefits for Singapore and other countries where cardiovascular disease and diabetes are the leading causes of death and morbidity.

Prof Wong has published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers, and has awards in ophthalmology, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. He is the only ophthalmologist worldwide to receive the Sandra Doherty Award from the American Heart Association for cardiovascular research, and the second ophthalmologist to receive the Novartis Prize in Diabetes Global Award. For his outstanding contributions in translational and clinical research in ophthalmology and his novel approach in linking retinal imaging to diagnose human vascular and metabolic disease, Prof Wong was awarded the 2010 National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award, as well as the 2010 President’s Science Award.